LOVE: A thank you (long post!)
Sunday, May 18th, 2008 Posted in crafts, embroidery, friends, sewing, Wedding | 1 Comment »Windi and I go way back; all the way to the time when I didn't talk much. Nope, not when we were babies...college. I had been in the country for a little less than 3 years when I met her ...
Ciclos*
Sunday, March 9th, 2008 Posted in gardening, hobbies, languages | 2 Comments »Ciclos: Cycles in Spanish. That's what having a garden is like. Cycles of beautiful lush gardens, flowers and outdoors; cycles of harvesting the produce you've raised from seed and cycles of cold that are enjoyed indoors, baking cookies and getting ready ...
Spring is here!
Monday, February 25th, 2008 Posted in gardening | No Comments »Well, not really, but this household has been taken over garden planning. This will be our third year at The Spring Gardens and I can't wait! Last week I ordered from Amazon the book You Grow Girl! by Gayla Trail. I've ...
ForkYou Live!…tomorrow!
Friday, February 22nd, 2008 Posted in food, Fork You | No Comments »I saw this outside of Foster's on Tuesday, while exploring the city with Boombadeus' mom: Can you see who the guests of this week are? Lemme help you: That's right! If you're in Philly tomorrow, head on over to 4th and ...
Lotus bag
Friday, February 22nd, 2008 Posted in embroidery, general crafts, sewing | No Comments »February has been a busy birthday celebration month. It might be the shortest month of the year, but we've already celebrated two friend's birthday and there is another celebration this weekend. Days before R's birthday, I was looking at PurlBee's sewing ...
Luna de…fabric?
Thursday, February 21st, 2008 Posted in sewing, skirt | 2 Comments »The honeymoon, Luna de Miel in Spanish, is defined as "a holiday taken by a newly married couple" never did I think it would involve buying fabric! It was a crisp, beautiful October morning in Madrid and we were heading to ...
Simplicity 5914
Monday, February 4th, 2008 Posted in sewing, skirt | No Comments »This is one of the skirts that brought back the seamstress in me after more than a decade. I was a little nervous to sew again; for many years I had only sewn hems, lots of pillows and a picnic blanket...but ...
My hips don’t lie
Saturday, February 2nd, 2008 Posted in sewing | No Comments »When I was a kid, I loved making my dolls dresses and fancy skirts, furniture, houses, etc, etc. Doll's clothes were extremely expensive for someone without an allowance (and a bit hard to find in a small-town-third-world-country setting) so there ...
Mum-o-rama: the making of.
Saturday, January 26th, 2008 Posted in crafts, Flowers, general crafts, Wedding | 3 Comments »Well, we already discussed how I liked the pomander balls....now here is how they were made: 1. Beheaded LOTS of mums! 2. Went glue gun CRAZY! Nah, seriously, these are the changes that I made to the pomander idea:
Mum-o-rama!
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008 Posted in Flowers, general crafts, Wedding | 1 Comment »Picture this: September, 2007; a beautiful hot summer in Philadelphia. Leaves were starting to turn beautiful golden colors but the weather remained around 70's. In our little garden, tomatoes were still being harvested; the basil was giving up and the eggplants ...